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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians."

"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"For you see, each day I love you more - today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."

"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

"Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil."

"I buy when other people are selling."

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."